Covering Quotes

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.